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laerun's review
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
4.0
andydee73's review
5.0
My wife’s boss recommended it. She said, “it’s a story that deserved to be told.” I think that’s a perfect way of describing this book. I hope to meet Dick Conant in heaven someday.
boggremlin's review
2.0
I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t enjoy this book; it was fine, but I think it was a little longer than it needed to be.
lspargo's review
3.0
I'm a little torn on the rating for this book. The 2/3rds that covered Conant, his history, and his travels on the rivers all across the country were great. But there was a stretch in the middle focusing on the random people Conant met on his travels that I wanted to skim through. They were not nearly as interesting. Without those sections, I would have given it an extra star.
kategci's review
4.0
I am glad I picked up a copy of this book almost a year ago while I was in Vermont after Rachel Person, the events coordinator for the Northshire Saratoga store recommended it. In turn, I chose it for my personal book group as we are affiliated with a yacht club and we are always looking for books with a nautical theme. Ben McGrath, a staff writer for The New Yorker meets Dick Conant on Labor Day morning, 2014 on the banks of the Hudson in his hometown of Piermont. Conant is passing through, ostensibly on the way to Florida for the winter. They speak and McGrath writes a couple of articles for the magazine. When the canoe is found in a remote part of North Carolina, the Sheriff of the county contacts McGrath as Conant had kept his contact information. McGrath then searches and finds so many of the people that Conant had crossed paths with who almost always remembered him with fondness. Well-written, McGrath tries his best to show us Conant, but I somehow always felt he was at arm's length, trying to figure out why he was drawn to canoeing the rivers of the USA.
abitters's review against another edition
5.0
For those who love Krakauer, this book has similar themes to Into the Wild, but is written in a much more riveting style. Conant, the focus of the book, is of mythical proportions but the author tracks every story down to corroborate them. A heckuva story. Highly recommend.